期刊名称：JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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The Journal covers experimental and theoretical work aimed at deciphering features of molecular evolution and the processes bearing on these features, from the initial formation of macromolecular systems onward. Topics addressed in the Journal include the evolution of informational macromolecules and their relation to more complex levels of biological organization, up to populations and taxa. This coverage accommodates well such subfields as comparative structural and functional genomics, population genetics, the molecular evolution of development, the evolution of gene regulation and gene interaction networks, and in vitro evolution of DNA and RNA.
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Instructions to Authors
Electronic Submission
We are pleased to announce that we have moved to an online system of manuscript tracking called ManuscriptCentral.
Authors are encouraged to submit their articles to Journal of Molecular Evolution online. This will allow even quicker and more efficient processing of your manuscript.
Please log directly onto the site
http://jme.manuscriptcentral.com
and upload your manuscripts following the instructions given on the screen.
Please note: if you have submitted to Journal of Molecular Evolution before, please hit the "check for existing account" button. You will then receive an automatic e-mail with your user id and password. Otherwise please create a new account and then follow the instructions given on the screen.
This journal now accepts electronic manuscript submissions via Manuscript Central. Authors can upload text and graphics into this system. The editorial office will inspect the submission online and assign an Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor and reviewers. These individuals will have access to the uploaded electronic manuscript and authors can track the review process through the system. If you are unable to utilize the electronic submission system, please contact the editorial office at jme@pondside.uchicago.edu for assistance.
System requirements
Authors will need the following in order to use Manuscript Central:
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Netscape 4.x or MS Internet Explorer 4.x/5.x
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Adobe Acrobat browser plug-in
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Electronic files of their article text.
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Electronic files of their article graphics (scanned or exported)
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Author Accounts
Authors entering the journal's Manuscript Central site can either create a new account or use an existing one. When you have an existing account, use it for all your submissions and you can track their status on the same page.
Getting Started
Once you have logged into your account, Manuscript Central will lead you through the submission process in a step-by-step orderly process. If you cannot finish your submission in one visit, you can save a draft and re-enter the process at the same point for that manuscript.
While submitting your electronic manuscript, you will be required to enter data about your manuscript in the system. These include title, subtitle, author names and affiliations, and so forth. Support for special characters is available. At any point during this process, there are Help buttons available to see common questions and a support link to ask a specific question via email.
Uploading Files
Electronic files can be uploaded as PDF, PostScript, or RTF. PDF and PostScript files should already contain the graphics within the file. (PostScript files are converted by the system into PDF so that Editors and reviewers may share them.
RTF (Rich Text Format) is a common export property of most popular word processors. Check your word processor to see if it can export or "SaveAs" your file in RTF format. MS Word and WordPerfect both contain this function. After uploading the RTF for text, you will be prompted for uploading graphics. Common graphics files such as GIF, JPEG, EPS, TIFF and many others are supported. After uploading the parts of the article in this manner, the system will convert the files to PDF. You will see the result of the conversion with the Acrobat plug-in in your browser. Keep copies of your word-processing and graphics files. You may want to revise the manuscript during the review process and you will need the original files if your manuscript is accepted. At any point during this process, there are Help buttons available to see common questions and a support link to ask a specific question via email.
You will also be notified by email that your submission was successful.
Graphics Quality
If you are submitting electronic graphics that you have scanned, be prepared to send the hard copy originals upon request. While the electronic files you have created are satisfactory for the review process, they may not be of sufficient quality for printing. This also holds true for files created in low-resolution graphics environments such as MS Powerpoint, etc.
Keeping Track
After submission, you may return periodically and monitor the progress of your submission through the review process.
Editorial Contact Information
Giorgio Bernardi
Stazione Zoologica "Anton Dohrn"
Villa Communale
I-80121 Napoli, Italy
Telephone: +39-81-583-3215 or +39-81-583-3402
Fax: +39-81-245-5807
e-mail: bernardi@alpha.szn.it
Takashi Gojobori
Center for Information Biology
National Institute of Genetics
1111 Yata, Mishima,
Shizuoka-ken, 411-8540
Japan
Telephone: 81-559-81-6847
Fax: 81-559-81-6848
e-mail: tgojobor@genes.nig.ac.jp
Martin Kreitman
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Telephone: 773-702-1222
Fax: 773-702-9740
e-mail: mkre@midway.uchicago.edu
Copyright
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis); that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere; that its publication has been approved by all coauthors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities at the institute where the work has been carried out; that, if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree to automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher; that the manuscript will not be published elsewhere in any language without the consent of the copyright holders; that written permission of the copyright holder is obtained by the authors for material used from other copyrighted sources; and that any costs associated with obtaining this permission are the authors' responsibility.
Preparation of Manuscripts
The Journal strongly encourages authors to submit electronically prepared manuscripts in Word Perfect 5.1, Microsoft Word (Macintosh), or Microsoft Word (PC). Follow the instructions set forth here exactly; if, for example, the reference section is incorrectly styled, the value of the diskette submission will be reduced. Disk submission does not eliminate the requirement of submitting four hard copies of the manuscript.
Manuscripts should be typewritten or prepared on a word processor, with all material double-spaced, on one side of letter-sized paper, with suitably wide margins. All pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with page 1, the title page. Tables and figures should be numbered serially, and legends to illustrations should be prepared on separate sheets. Tables and figures will be placed near their first mention in the text; all tables and figures must be referred to in the manuscript.
Title Page: The following elements must be included:
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Title of the article;
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Name(s) and initial(s) of author(s), preferably with first names spelled out;
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Affiliation(s) of author(s);
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Footnotes to the contribution title;
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Name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
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Abstract: Each article is to be preceded by a succinct abstract, of up to 250 words, that highlights the objectives, methods, results, and conclusions of the paper.
Key Words: To identify the subjects under which the article may be indexed, 6-10 key words should be provided.
References: In the text, references to the literature should be by author and year; where there are two authors, both should be named; with three or more only the first author's name plus "et al." need be given. The list at the end of the paper should include only works mentioned in the text and should be arranged alphabetically by name of first author. References should be cited as follows:
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Journal papers -- name(s) and initial(s) of author(s), year in brackets, full title, name of the journal as abbreviated in Chemical Abstracts, volume number, first and last page numbers:
Quiring R, Walldorf U, Koter U, Gehring WJ (1994) Homology of the eyeless gene of Drosophila to the small eye gene in mice and aniridia in humans. Science 265:785
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Books -- name(s) of author(s), year in brackets, full title, edition, publishers, place of publication, page number:
Maizels N, Weiner AM (1993) The genomic tag hypothesis: modern viruses as fossils of ancient strategies for genomic replication. In: Gesteland RF, Atkins JF (eds) The RNA world. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York, pp. 577 -- 602
Li W - (1997) Molecular evolution. Sinauer Assosiates, Sunderland, MA
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Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic references rests entirely with the author, who is requested to use as few "in press" citations as possible. In press citations must include the name of the journal that has accepted the paper.
Footnotes: Those in the text should be numbered consecutively. Footnotes to the title or authors of the article are marked by asterisks and placed on the title page.
Sequences: Sequences that are used merely as data points in statistical calculations or graphs should, if possible, be referred to by their accession numbers only. Authors should be quoted by name when their sequences are discussed individually or presented in alignments.
Illustrations: These should be suitable for reproduction, and should clarify or shorten the text. Information provided in figure legends should not be repeated in the text. Figures and graphs should always be mentioned in the text and numbered with Arabic numerals. Each figure must be labeled on its back, indicating fugure number, author name, and an indication of the top of the figure where necessary. Authors are encouraged to provide .eps or .tif files whenever possible, in addition to hard copies.
Color Figures: Color can be used without charge for the electronic edition of the journal but will appear in the printed version of the journal at the author's expense: $1150 for the first page and $575 for each additional page within the same article.
Computer Software: Any software referred to among methods used must be obtainable either commercially or upon request from the authors. In submitting a manuscript to the Journal, authors accept the obligation to furnish upon request any information necessary for reproducing the methodologies on which their results are based. The methods used for preparing and analyzing alignments must be stated precisely.
Mathematical Equations: These should be clearly prepared, and annotated if necessary. Primes and dots must be called to the attention of the typesetter. Differentiate legibly between number 1, capital letter I, and lower case letter l. Use fractional exponents instead of root signs and the solidus (/) for fractions wherever their use will save vertical space. Use exp () notation when the exponent is sizable. All equations must be numbered sequentially, on the right-hand side of the column, in parenthetic Arabic numerals.
Organisms: Must be identified by their scientific binomen.
Homology: The term should not be used in the sense of structural similarity but only in its biological sense of derivation of structures from a common ancestral structure.
Abbreviations, Symbols, Units, etc.: Acronyms and symbols must be defined at first mention, in titles, abstracts, as well as within the text. For nomenclature, abbreviations, symbols, and units, authors should follow internationally accepted rules, including those adopted by the Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature.
Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for Print
Send illustrations separately from the text (i.e. files should not be integrated with the text files). Always send printouts of all illustrations.
Vector (line) Graphics
Vector graphics exported from a drawing program should be stored in EPS format.
Suitable drawing program: Adobe Illustrator. For simple line art the following drawing programs are also acceptable: Corel Draw, Freehand, Canvas.
No rules narrower than .25 pt.
No gray screens paler than 15% or darker than 60%.
Screens meant to be differentiated from one another must differ by at least 15%.
Spreadsheet/Presentation Graphics
Most presentation programs (Excel, PowerPoint, Freelance) produce data that cannot be stored in an EPS format. Therefore graphics produced by these programs cannot be used for print.
Halftone Illustrations
Black & white and color illustrations should be saved in TIFF format.
Illustrations should be created using Adobe Photoshop whenever possible.
Scans*
Scanned reproductions of black and white photographs should be provided as 300 ppi TIFF files.
Scanned color illustrations should be provided as TIFF files scanned at a minimum of 300 ppi with a 24-bit color depth.
Line art should be provided as TIFF files at 600 ppi.
* We do prefer having the original art as our printers have drum scanners which allow for better reproduction of critical medical halftones.
Graphics from Videos
Separate files should be prepared for frames from a video that are to be printed in the journal. When preparing these files you should follow the same rules as listed under Halftone Illustrations.
Guidelines for Electronically Produced Illustrations for ONLINE
Quicktime (.mov) is the preferred format, but .rm, .avi, .mpg, etc. are acceptable.
No video file should be larger than 2MB. To decrease the size of your file, consider changing one or more of the following variables: frame speed, number of colors/greys, viewing size (in pixels), or compression. Video is subject to Editorial review and approval.
Editorial Board
Editors
Giorgio Bernardi
Naples, Italy
Takashi Gojobori
Mishima, Japan
Martin Kreitman
Chicago, Illinois
Consulting Editor
Masatoshi Nei
Penn State, Pennsylvania, USA
Associate Editors
J. William O. Ballard, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Peer Bork, Heidelberg, Germany
James Bull, Austin, Texas, USA
R¨¹diger Cerff, Braunschweig, Germany
Massimo Di Giulio, Napoli, Italy
W. Ford Doolittle, Halifax, Canada
Laura Landweber, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Niles Lehman, Portland, Oregon, USA
Wen-Hsiung Li, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Manyuan Long, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Axel Meyer, Konstanz, Germany
Takashi Miyata, Kyoto, Japan
Hector Musto, Montevideo, Uruguay
Rasmus Nielsen, Ithaca, New York, USA
Magnus Nordborg, Los Angeles, California, USA
Norihiro Okada, Yokohama, Japan
Graziano Pesole, Milan, Italy
Cecilia Saccone, Bari, Italy
Edward N. Trifonov, Rehovot, Israel
Shintarah Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
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